But I’m not here to blurb on about my own chart. In my last blog, I didn’t include the Heliacal Rising Star of Gordon Brown, which is (as far as I can tell) FACIES. This is one of the difficult stars, for while on the one hand it suggests someone who is very strongly focussed and forceful (as Brown has always been), it is also strongly associated with ruthlessness and violence. One of the civil servants under Brown when he was at the Treasury spoke of his “sheer Stalinist ruthlessness.” The presence of this star in this position, combined with Brown’s history, suggests to me a brutal element to his leadership that will become clear to the public over time. He may also be more ready to go to war than we think.
On one of those literal notes that astrology sometimes strikes, Facies is in the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer (not to be confused with the Zodiacal Sagittarius, which exists in our imaginations, but not in the heavens). Archers have very keen eyesight (hence the ‘focus’ of the star). I guess because it is a ‘difficult’ star, a number of the older commentators have associated this star with blindness and eyesight problems. Brady disagrees with this, associating Facies rather with keen eyesight. She may be right in general, but in Gordon Brown’s case, he got kicked in the head while playing rugby aged 16 (there’s Facies for you), lost one eye and eventually nearly lost the sight of the other. I don’t want to sound callous, but I love astrology when it is so literal, it gives me a sense of the raw power it can have.
3 comments:
DR, I'm intrigued and confused about this heliacal rising star business. If it is the last star to rise before the Sun rises, how come Brown's is so far away from the Sun--approximately a square, right? How many stars are in the list?
I suppose I could check out Brady's book, but I'm lazy.
It's a sextile, I reckon, and it's to do with him being born at such a northern latitude -55 degrees.
Glad I stumbled upon this. I too have Acumen as my heliacal rising star. I'm very relieved it is too dim to greet the dawn. Is Sadalmelek the next nearest. I must say I resonate with that more too, but then who wouldn't. Acumen not nice... Although I must say I have been subject to poison tongue wagging during my life, but that could be a result of other elements in my chart.
I'm still not sure what to make of the Parans. I have always used the fixed stars in the conventional way as Ptolemy arranged them along the ecliptic and found that to be accurate. Your Gordon Brown and Facies observation tho leads me to think there must be something in it.
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